I've never had sushi. Is the rice there just to balance the flavor of the fish? This is subjective so there may be more than one answer.
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YDKDec 17 '10 at 18:48

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BFree, Welcome to mi.yodeya, and thanks very much for the interesting and relevant question! I look forward to seeing you around.
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Isaac MosesDec 17 '10 at 20:41

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Sushi, by definition, can have anything stuffed in it and be called sushi as long as you have the properly prepared rice. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi
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YahuDec 17 '10 at 22:52

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Since, as @Yahu points out sushi can be filled with anything, perhaps the fact that the name is based on the rice indicates the rice being ikkar (at least within the cultural milieu where it originated).
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Ze'ev FelsenDec 17 '14 at 3:13

Yes @Ze'evFelsen, I should have folowed through with my point. Thanks for completing it!
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YahuMay 13 at 20:55

Berachot.com says its Mezonos and, and also writes (Q13, on that page)

What bracha to say on Sushi is a really difficult and fantastic
question. I personally asked Rabbi Mandlebaum, the author of V'Zos
Habracha, and he confirmed that we treat sushi as the third category
of Ikar and Tofel- TaArovet Tofel. Therefore, the bracha would be
dictated by the largest ingredient by volume. I am no expert in sushi,
but I feel like there is more rice than there is fish or vegetables
(counted each separately)

Who is he? His answer has validity if subjectively both the fish and the rice are ikarim. If the rice is not an ikar, it's majority would not affect the bracha. (The questioner is correct as well that rice doesn't get the same status as chameishes minim.)
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YDKDec 17 '10 at 20:26

It's also worth pointing out that those who follow the opinion of R' Shneur Zalman of Liadi (in his Seder Birchos Hanehenin 1:11, cited in Mishnah Berurah 208:25) should preferably eat sushi, or any other rice dishes, only during a meal of bread, because there are variant views as to whether rice is the orez mentioned in the Gemara, and this would affect the question of what the proper berachah is. He adds that if this is not possible, one should just say shehakol because of this doubt.

(Mishnah Berurah adds, though, that the majority view is that orez is indeed rice, and that common practice follows this identification - hence the sources quoted by Simchas Torah and mekubal.)

I asked this question to a posek once, since the rice is majority but the icar is the fish, he said to me to to sheacol since the beracha to rice is mahloket and there are poskim who say it should be sheacol.

Sushi, by definition, can have anything stuffed in it and be called sushi as long as you have the properly prepared rice. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi
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YahuDec 19 '10 at 2:05

as the article mentions usually it is fish or seafoods, in our case only fish applies, so we can assume that fish is used, since is is the common used ingredient unless otherwise stated
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AvrahamDec 20 '10 at 16:03

So what does the rice being a majority have to do with your answer?
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YahuDec 22 '10 at 5:00

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maybe the rice could be considered icar because it is majority or maybe not because the fish is the important part and the reason I'm eating it and it has more rice than fish because it is cheaper
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AvrahamDec 22 '10 at 10:20